Tuesday, November 18, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Judeo out, CBI probe on
Naidu sees conspiracy
Dilip Singh JudeoNew Delhi, November 17
In a damage-control exercise a fortnight before the crucial assembly elections in four states of the Hindi heartland, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today accepted the resignation of Minister of State for Environment Dilip Singh Judeo and ordered a CBI inquiry.

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Manali has season’s first snowfall
Chandigarh, November 17
Most of the northern region was today under the grip of cold conditions following widespread rain in plains and snowfall in upper reaches. Many parts of Himachal Pradesh were reeling under bone-chilling cold with minimum at Shimla dropping to 3°C after hail and rain lashed the town. A shower of snowflakes heralds the arrival of winter in Manali on Monday.
A shower of snowflakes heralds the arrival of winter in Manali on Monday.
— Photo by M.C. Thakur

Mulayam Singh disowns affidavit
Sacks counsel in Ayodhya case
New Delhi, November 17
The Congress today came perilously close to snapping ties with its alliance partner the Samajwadi Party (SP), after the UP Government filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court defending the CBI charge sheet in the Ayodhya case, dropping the criminal conspiracy charge against senior BJP leaders, including Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani.

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This digital photo taken on November 4, 2003, with NASA’s extreme imaging telescope aboard the SOHO satellite shows the most powerful solar flare ever by orbiting instruments, according to the space agency. World page: Return of the sun-eating dragon



This digital photo taken on November 4, 2003, with NASA’s extreme imaging telescope aboard the SOHO satellite shows the most powerful solar flare ever by orbiting instruments, according to the space agency. — AP/PTI

SC agrees to reconsider HPCL judgement
New Delhi, November 17
For the first time, the Supreme Court today agreed to have a fresh look at its recent judgement on HPCL and BPCL sell-off cases holding that the privatisation of PSUs created by legislation required the prior approval of Parliament.

Singer Bindrakhia dead
Surjeet BindrakhiaMohali, November 17
Internationally renowned Punjabi folk singer Surjeet Bindrakhia (43) died in his sleep at his residence here early this morning. The singer was suffering from a health problem for almost an year now and was said to have died of a heart attack.

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Panchayat Secretaries reinstated
Chandigarh, November 17
As many as 470 Panchayat Secretaries will be given appointment letters by the Punjab Panchayati Raj and Rural Development Minister, Mrs Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, at a function here tomorrow.

Pak ready for talks under Simla pact
Islamabad, November 17
Pakistan said today that it was ready to talk to India to resolve Kashmir and other outstanding issues under the Simla Agreement and the Lahore Declaration. Referring to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s remarks in interviews to Syrian newspapers that the Kashmir issue should be solved bilaterally through the Simla accord, Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Masood Khan said his country had “no problem with it either.”



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